More so than any of the other punk musicians in the mid-1970s, Stiv Bators was fearless about masochistically abusing his body to draw attention. With sonic reductionists The Dead Boys, he rolled on the ground, thrashed about onstage and staged mock hangings that sometimes injured him. Bators also had a predilection for car surfing, climbing atop moving vehicles, a sport that resulted in his death in Paris in 1990, as recounted in writer-director Danny Garcia's new documentary, Stiv: The Life and Times of a Dead Boy.
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